Leicester City win Premier League title after Tottenham fail to beat Chelsea

Leicester City's remarkable rise to Premier League champions is complete after Tottenham Hotspur failed to beat Chelsea on Monday night.

The Foxes become the first club since Nottingham Forest in 1977-78 to win the English top-flight league title for the first time, having only once before -- in 1928-29 -- finished as runners-up in their 132-year history.

After Leicester drew 1-1 with Manchester United at the weekend, Tottenham needed to beat the Blues to keep the title race alive, but Claudio Ranieri's men are now an unassailable seven points clear of their rivals with two games left to play after Spurs' 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge.

Second-half goals from Gary Cahill and Eden Hazard were enough to finally down the second-place Spurs' charge, but the night, and season, belongs to Leicester.

It marks an incredible rise for the club who were facing relegation last season -- and spent 140 days from November 2014 to April 2015 at the bottom of the Premier League table -- before a run of seven wins in their last nine games under Nigel Pearson kept them up. They eventually finished in 14th place.

After their troubles last season, Leicester were 5,000-1 to win the title in 2015-16, with the highest cashout being £72,000 on a £50 bet, which was collected in March, according to Ladbrokes.

The 64-year-old Ranieri was far from the only knight in shining armour at the King Power Stadium this year.

Midfielder Riyad Mahrez and striker Jamie Vardy had already picked up the PFA's Footballer of the Year and Football Writers' Association awards. It is the first time that two players from the same club have claimed both awards in the same season since Everton's Neville Southall and Peter Reid in 1985.

Foxes fans have begun chanting "Jamie Vardy's having a party" this season, and the England striker actually threw one at his Melton Mowbray home.

Christian Fuchs, Robert Huth, Wes Morgan and Shinji Okazaki were present at Vardy's home, while a number of supporters also gathered outside the gates of the house.